A Room of One's Own, and Three Guineas

A combined edition pairing two of Woolf's essays on women, money and independence. A Room of One's Own argues that a woman needs financial means and private space in order to write. Three Guineas, published later, answers a letter asking how to prevent war, and links the exclusion of women from education and the professions to the wider forces that lead to conflict. Together they show Woolf as a sharp, witty and serious thinker about society and power.